1. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Need.
(c) Hate.
(d) Anger.

2. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?
(a) All repression.
(b) All desire.
(c) All hatred.
(d) All repulsion.

3. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Logical.
(b) Literal.
(c) Physical.
(d) Metaphorical.

4. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?
(a) Being a subject.
(b) Not being an object.
(c) Not being a subject.
(d) Being nothing.

5. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Biological needs.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Fears.
(d) Sexual desires.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?

2. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

3. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?

4. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?

5. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?

(see the answer key)

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